I went to a selective school, where it was like this for everybody. They put all the smart kids into one school, but didn't actually give us work that was any m

I went to a selective school, where it was like this for everybody. They put all the smart kids into one school, but didn't actually give us work that was any more challenging than you'd get at another school. Too much brains plus not enough challenge equals a culture of laziness. Competitive laziness. It was okay, at my school, to do well, provided that you didn't actually put any work into it.